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0 pointsbarbazoo9mo ago0 comments

Here's a real world example with Dia: I open https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/wildfires-track... and ask Dia

> how were wildfires this year compared to last?

Looking at the page, it's immediately obvious that 2025 was worse than 2024 but much better than 2023. What did Dia come up with:

> Wildfires in Canada this year have been severe, but last year saw even more land burned.

> According to the CBC wildfire tracker, Canada experienced two of its worst wildfire seasons on record in recent years. In 2024, more than five million hectares burned, making it an extremely destructive year. However, 2023 was even worse, with wildfires scorching 16 million hectares—over three times as much land as in 2024.

> Alberta, including the tourist town of Jasper, was hit especially hard in 2024, with a third of the community burning in July. Early signs suggest that 2025 could also be an active wildfire season, particularly in Western Canada.

> So, while 2024 was devastating, 2023 remains the most destructive recent wildfire season in terms of area burned.

It didn't even know what year it was, it's just a gimmick. I get that you want to be part of the gold rush trying to capture market share by slapping AI on something people use every day. It's just not useful enough yet and hallucinations make it even worse.

What I personally like most about Arc is

- the bookmark system, i.e. persistent tabs

- vertical tabs

- spaces, it's nice to have work separated from other stuff

- nice to look at, it's all very pretty in my opinion

- the fact that it was a fresh new look at what a browser should be without adding much of the AI hype

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felarof9mo ago

> It didn't even know what year it was, it's just a gimmick.

I understand. But we are still in early stages of product-market-fit here, AI agent integration with browsers should get lot better.

Thank you! We are adding vertical tabs already, we will look into adding persistent tabs.

Regarding UI, we want to put a fresh coat on top of chromium. But building a new UI layer (like Arc) would involve throwing away a lot of chromium code and I think that comes with its own cost, like sacrificing security updates from Google (which I feel The Browser Company also realized and started to invest when building Dia).

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